Online Craziness: SkyNet Edition
February 20, 2009
The provenance of the story “Experts Warn of Terminator-Style Military-Robot Rebellion” here appeared on the FoxNews.com Web site, and the story carried a link to the February 19, 2009, Times of London. You will have to read this article and make up your own mind. For me, the most interesting comment was:
The report, the first serious work of its kind on military robot ethics, envisages a fast-approaching era where robots are smart enough to make battlefield decisions that are at present the preserve of humans. Eventually, it notes, robots could come to display significant cognitive advantages over Homo sapiens soldiers.
I quite like the phrase “Homo sapiens soldiers”. Within the last 24 hours, Windows 7 lost its ability to see a network attached storage device. Our Vista test platform froze. And our NetFinity 5500 running Windows Server 2005 died. My BlackBerry would not render www.popurls.com. My two Macs lost the ability to see an external SATA drive with FAT32 partitions. Nope, I won’t be worry too much about a robot taking over the mine drainage pond here in Harrod’s Creek for a while. Those Homo sapiens journalists at FoxNews.com and the Times of London may be in more immediate danger, however. Robots are not likely to kill addled geese since roast goose is not part of the robot diet based on my experience.
Stephen Arnold, February 20, 2009
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http://b.popurls.mobi/ is the dedicated blackberry version; the .com is obviously too large.